Mooring design using wave-state estimate from the Southern Ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1351-1360

  Schulz, E W ^a   Grosenbaugh, M A ^b   Pender, L ^c   Greenslade, D J M ^a   Trull, T W ^d  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buoy observations

Indexed keywords

BUOY OBSERVATIONS; DATA SETS; DESIGN ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC FATIGUE; FATIGUE ANALYSIS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MOORING DESIGN; MOTION DATA; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WAVE CLIMATOLOGIES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DESIGN; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION;

MOORING;

DESIGN; FATIGUE; MOORING SYSTEM; OCEAN WAVE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATIC RESPONSE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 82955169537     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05033.1     Document Type: Article

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